I pulled into the Motorcycle parking bay in Central Reading the other day, and was greeted with the following engineering marvel,
http://www.dayun.co.uk/dayun-electric-tandem-bike/
As you can imagine, the lack of number plate caught my eye, as did the bike pedals poking out of the side - so I did a little searching.
Turns out these are classified as "Assisted Tandem Pushbikes" and limited to 15.5 Mph, with power only available under 15.5 MPH - much like a regular electrically assisted push-bike (that looks like a regular cycle)
I can't help but think these are a really daft idea, if not only because I assume you would spend more time talking to Policeman Plod than actually riding the thing. Not to mention the way traffic will treat what they see as a "very slow moped".
Has anyone here owned one, seen one used etc ? I am genuinely curious if there is anyone out there that thinks this is a good idea? Because to me its just a silly stretching of regulations. I am all for electrically assisted push bikes, but making it look like a moped just takes the biscuit.
Edit: Also, its a thousand pounds ?!?!
http://www.dayun.co.uk/dayun-electric-tandem-bike/
As you can imagine, the lack of number plate caught my eye, as did the bike pedals poking out of the side - so I did a little searching.
Turns out these are classified as "Assisted Tandem Pushbikes" and limited to 15.5 Mph, with power only available under 15.5 MPH - much like a regular electrically assisted push-bike (that looks like a regular cycle)
I can't help but think these are a really daft idea, if not only because I assume you would spend more time talking to Policeman Plod than actually riding the thing. Not to mention the way traffic will treat what they see as a "very slow moped".
Has anyone here owned one, seen one used etc ? I am genuinely curious if there is anyone out there that thinks this is a good idea? Because to me its just a silly stretching of regulations. I am all for electrically assisted push bikes, but making it look like a moped just takes the biscuit.
Edit: Also, its a thousand pounds ?!?!
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